Photographic solution-box.



No. 800,439. PATENTBD SEPT. 26, 1905. G. C. GENNERT. PHOTOGRAPHIG SOLUTION BOX.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10, 1905.

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GUSTAVE CHARLES GENNERT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOLUTION-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Application filed March 10, 1905. Serial No. 249,371.

To It whom it WMLZ/(ZOHGETIZ:

Be it known that I, GUSTAVE CHARLES GENNERT, a citizen of the United States, and

' a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Photographic Solution-Box, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a device for use in developing, fixing, and washing photographic plates, comprising a receptacle and a tray having free movement in the receptacle, which tray is constructed to hold plates in a standing position, and, furthermore, to supply the tray with handles so applied that they may be employed for reciprocating the tray in the receptacle and for supporting and holding the tray partially out of the receptacle and entirely out of the fluid employed, enabling the operator to have ready access to the plates.

A further purpose of the invention is to so construct and connect the handles with the tray that the moment they are carried outward and downward at the mouth of the receptacle they will be in such locking engagement with the receptacle as to firmly and rigidly hold the tray in its elevated position.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indi cate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the im proved device, the tray being shown held in elevated position. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the device, the tray being at the bottom of the receptacle. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view of a part of the upper portion of the receptacle and handle end of the tray, showing the handles as supporting the tray; and Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail sectional view of a portion of the receptacle and handle end of the tray, illustrating the handles in position to work the tray in the receptacle.

The receptacle A, as shown, is in the form of a rectangular box provided with a cover 10, preferably hinged to the body at the rear; but while the shape of the receptacle illus trated is preferred other shapes may be adopted.

The receptacle Ais intended to receive the fluid used in developing, fiXing, and washing photographic plates, which plates are made to stand in a trayB. The trayB is of a shape corresponding to the interior cross-sectional shape of the receptacle A and may be constructed of any desired material. The tray is provided with closed ends 11 and sides 12, having vertical corrugations 13 therein to re ceive the edges of the plates. The top is open, as is likewise the bottom; but within the tray at the bottom a horizontal marginal flange 1 1 is located to support the lower edges of the plates. The top and bottom portions of the tray are reinforced by externally-attached bands 15 and 16, and at the upper central portion of each end of the tray a vertical slot 17 is made. The upper end reinforcing-bands 15 are bent inward through the slots 17, forming vertical loops 18, open at the outer face of the tray, and at the lower end portion of each slot 17 a staple or pivotpin 19 is secured. A

Handles O are provided for the rack B. The handles at their lower ends have outwardly and upwardlybent hook-terminals 20, located within the slots 17, being pivotally supported by the pins or staples 19, while the upper ends of the handles are carried inward or in direction of each other and have ring-loops 21, formed at such point, which loops 21 when the handles are in the vertical position (shown in Fig. 2) closely approach each other, so that the thumb and forefinger of the o eratorshand maybe passed through the sai loo s 21 to raise and lower the tray or rack in t e bath. WVhen the handles are in a vertical position, they will not engage with the sides of the receptacle A, as they fit in the end loops 18 of the tray, as is shown in Fig. 2. When the tray is drawn slightly out from the receptacle A, as is shown in Fig. 1, and the handles are carried outward and downward, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the position of the hook-terminals 20 will be reversed and u on engaging with the edge of the receptac e at its mouth will firmly support the tray in its elevated position, affording the operator convenient access to the plates.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a photographic solution-box, a receptacle for liquids, a tray slidable within the receptacle, and independent handles pivoted to opposite sides of the tray, mounted to swing outward and downward over the upper edge of the receptacle when the tray is elevated in the receptacle, and lock said tray in elevated position.

2. In a photographic solution-box, a tray' hoo tray. I

3. In a photographic solution-box, a tray for plates, handles having hook-terminals, and pivots for the handles carried. by the tray and passed through the bill-sections of. the said hook-terminals, which hook-terminals face outwardly when the handles are in an upright position.

4. In a photographic solution-box, a tray for holding plates, handlesfor the tray, having hook-terminals which face outward when. the handles are upright, pivots for the handles carried by the tray and passed through the bill-sections of the hook-terminals, finger-loops at the outer ends of the handles, and inwardly-extending receiving-loops for the handles formed in the tray above the pivots for the handles.

5. In a. photographic solution-box, a tray for plates having movement in. the said box,

terminals pivotally connected with the for plates, and handles for the tray, having and handles for the tray pivoted thereto, which handles when in upright position serve as manipulating mediums for the tray and in a lower position act as supporting and locking mediums-for the tray.

6. In a photographic solution-box, a tray for plateshaving movement in the box, handles for the tray pivoted thereto, their pivotalportions being in the form of hooks the bill members whereof face outward, when the handles are upright, the pivots being passed through said bill members, inwardly-extend: ing loops formed in the tray adjacent to the pivots for the handles, which loops receive the handles when in an upright position, the hook-sections of the handles engagin an 11 per edge of the receptacle when said andles are carried to a lower position outside of the receptacle.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses,

GUSTAVE CHARLES- GENNERT.

I/Vitnesses LOLA, A. GOULD, DELIA E. THOMPSON. 

